A novel sulfaguanidine (SG)-modified polyamide thin-film composite (TFC) nanofiltration (NF) membrane was constructed by the strategy referred to as co-solvent assisted interfacial polymerization (CASIP), which involves the respective interfacial polymerization (IP) of piperazine (PIP) and SG with trimesoyl chloride (TMC) on porous polysulfone (PSf) supports. CASIP enables the formation of a defect-free thin dense active layer and favors higher water permeance up to 79.0 L m h with rejection above 98.3% for NaSO. The resulting PA membrane also demonstrates a high flux recovery ratio of nearly 98.9% to bovine serum albumin protein after being cleaned. More importantly, the current membrane shows excellent anti-adhesive and antimicrobial performances against Gram-negative , Gram-positive LDS.33 and JFS. This promises great potential application of the PA membrane for practical water/wastewater treatment. The prospect of using the co-solvent mediated SG-modified layer as a next-generation anti-fouling/antimicrobial membrane is very encouraging.
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